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icy, granular snow makes for terrible skiing—if you can, ski on light, powdery snow
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Housed on a top-secret mainframe, these systems control, on a granular level, government payments that in their totality amount to more than a fifth of the US economy.
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Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2025
Zuckerberg hasn’t indicated any desire to interfere with Instagram moderation at a granular level, or do any other editing of political speech.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Conversation intelligence serves up data in dashboards that allow users to explore topics, trends and sources of customer friction at a granular level.
—Tom Lewis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
This kind of granular maritime reconnaissance began in the 1960s, when the NRL developed a ship surveillance capability known as HULTEC, short for hull-to-emitter correlation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2025
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Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2025
Zuckerberg hasn’t indicated any desire to interfere with Instagram moderation at a granular level, or do any other editing of political speech.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Conversation intelligence serves up data in dashboards that allow users to explore topics, trends and sources of customer friction at a granular level.
—Tom Lewis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
This kind of granular maritime reconnaissance began in the 1960s, when the NRL developed a ship surveillance capability known as HULTEC, short for hull-to-emitter correlation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Granular.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/granular. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.
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granular
adjective
gran·u·lar
ˈgran-yə-lər 
1
: consisting of grains
2
: having a grainy structure, feel, or appearance
Medical Definition
granular
adjective
gran·u·lar
ˈgran-yə-lər
1
a
: consisting of or containing granules : having a grainy texture
b
: having granules with an affinity for specific biological stains
granular cytoplasm
2
: having or marked by granulations
granular tissue
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